How does Roderick Doughnuts say it?

In the course of installing the show I have coming up (Return of the Prodigal, see below) there was a space left open right next to the door. So, I thought it would be nice to have something graphic to welcome people in and also to bid them adieu. Well, aloha does both of those things and Roderick says it with gusto! So, I whipped this up last night and will print it up tomorrow.

Roderick Doughnuts is one bad dude. And this is how he says it.

Return of the Prodigal

I have a show going up soon at the historic Barnesville Depot.
It will be open from July 1-August 20.
The opening reception is July 8, 6-8pm.
Everyone is invited!

Below is the postcard for the show:

The Little Humpbacked Horse

The June 13&20th double issue of the New Yorker will contain an illustration by yours truly. The Mariinsky Ballet is putting on “The Little Humpbacked Horse” at Lincoln Center. It looks to be quite a treat. I wish I could go see it.

Mother’s Day

This year’s Mother’s Day card.

All tomorrow’s after-parties

After the party the Goddess Honeysuckle just wants to gather her belongings and head home.

Where’s the nearest nail salon?

Is there a place in this solar system for a well groomed cosmonaut?

Love is in the air

Need I say more?

The Other Place

Roseanne’s sister in Roseanne Barr’s show “Roseanne” is starring in a play called “The Other Place” in New York City. It/she will be reviewed in the 02May11 issue.

I love how the premise of the review establishes in the first line that there are a much broader array of qualities in an actor than “sexy” or “rugged” and then in the next to last line she is (oh, look at the range!) both sexy AND authoritative. Wow, there really are so many other possibilities for an actor.

Here is the illustration:

Flotsam & Jetsam: Deep Space Redux

Here is a page I just remodeled for the next Static Fish. I drew the image last year for a poster advertising a gallery show in Red Hook. But I had always intended to turn it into a page of comics. Here, finally, is the end result.

I am really feeling good about the headline. It took me almost as long as the rest of the page, but it was worth it.

Headline detail:

Harmonization

Sketch of the day:

Un Regard Moderne and Me

I was in Paris last week for a Moebius exhibition at the Fondation Cartier, which, by the way, was amazing and inspiring. I will post more on that at a later date.

But my second order of business was visiting one of the world’s most stupefying book stores. Un Regard Moderne is stacked toe to top with fantastic and stimulating books, books, and more books. If you are a bibliophile, as I most certainly am, or an aesthete, also guilty, you will love it.

I went twice and on the second visit Mr. Noël bought the books I had hauled over from Cabbagetown. If you are ever in Paris and fit one of the two aforementioned categories you must visit.

The facade on Rue Git-le-coeur.

Beautifulness.

Mr. Noël holding up some newly acquired awesomeness!

The Moth or the Flame and Static Fish cozying up to a stack of paper delight.

Moon Blood

Feel the blood coursing through thy veins.
How it pulses.
Like the ocean’s tides.
Does this blood also rise or fall,
according to the Moon’s feminine caprice?

Five Divas

This illustration will be in next week’s New Yorker. Film Forum is running a film series of five Japanese divas throughout the month and this will accompany the write-up.

This is my first illustration since moving to Atlanta, so no more Film Forum for me. The move is also responsible for the lack of posting for almost a month now. We still don’t even have internet, don’t ask. So far we have been too busy unpacking and getting situated to get much else done. A very little exploring. A bit of sketching here and there. And trying to stay honed. Moving is arduous.